Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops fought them and brought the Nez Perce back to reservations.
Sitting Bull
Leader of Nez Perce.
Attack in 1864 by Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington on Cheyenne & Arapaho Indians that were under the protection of the U.S. Army. The attack killed about 150 Cheyenne elderly, women, and children at Sandcreek Reservation in Colorado.
Sand Creek Massacre
Dawes General Allotment Act
Specific areas set aside by the federal government for the Indians use.
became the first-ever chief of all seven bands of the Lakota Sioux.
Battle of Little Big Horn
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment, each Indian family was granted a 160-acre farmstead. To protect the Indians they were not allowed to sell or transfer the land for 25 years.
In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up fleeing Sioux and took them to Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, soldiers demanded the Native Americans give up their weapons. A shot was fired and the soldiers opened fire, 100 Native men women and children were murdered.
Assimilate
Battle in 1876 where General George Custer and his 7th Calvary were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
Adjusting, adapting, conforming to a group, nation or culture.
Reservation
Wounded Knee
Sioux war chief and trained as a holy man
Chief Joseph
